Tyson Kidd Discusses WWE’s TV Tapings vs. Live Events, Pre-Match Routine

In an interview with Atlantic City Weekly, Tyson Kidd compared working WWE TV to working a live event. Here are highlights:

On WWE TV vs Live events: “Obviously with televised shows you have the pyro and the huge titantron that are very cool and you also have the audience on TV. For live events, there are no time constraints. Even if it’s in a huge arena, the live events, often I feel, are more a more intimate setting in terms of a little bit more of a crowd reaction. With TV, everything is on a very tightly run schedule, especially Monday Night Raw where we have commercials and different things like that. In the live event, the flow just keeps on going I find, and I just feel if you’re a WWE fan, for me, there is no better value than a live event. For me, and being on the road over 200 days a year, I absolutely love the live event.”

On his pre-match routine: “A little bit before my match I make sure I stick to my old Japanese roots and bust out 100 hindu squats, especially since my knee injury, I make sure the blood is warmed up in my legs. I do a bunch of pushups and I play with this resistance band that I have. I leave a couple at home because I know I’ll lose this one on the road because I’ve left about 10 to 20 of them on the road over the years.”

On what he remembers about Atlantic City and Boardwalk Hall: “For me it’s very cool. Macho Man is one of my all-time favorites and Wrestlemania IV was where he won the World Championship in the tournament. That was the only Wrestlemania set up like that. And Macho Man wrestled four times that night and he came out as champion and that’s always cool. Every time I pull up to that arena I always know that this is the place that Macho Man main-evented Wrestlemania IV and won the WWE Championship. Things like that are always cool.”

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